Programma December
December 10th
“‘Theses on stupidity, drinking and dying’ or ‘How to get to Hellfire Inn’”
Adam Etmanski
Installation based upon a place, that could be anyplace.
‘Till these days, I remember the smell of this place and words that have been spoken there without any shame. God, art, theater, nation and proletariat.’ W.G.’
December 18th
“PROJECT TSARINO”
Is an exhibition which will introduce Project Tsarino and its residency, as a presentation of works and documentation made there this summer.
Tsarino has been searched for and found by a collective of seven artists. It is a small abandoned village situated in the Bulgarian Rodopi Mountains. At this moment it does not exist anymore on the official map of Bulgaria. There is no conventional road that leads to the village and it has no electricity or running water. Tsarino has been abandoned by all its previous inhabitants, except for one. This migration happened during the social and economical developments of the late 1980’s, when communism was traded for a capitalistic democracy.
Some of the key interests of the residency are to trade the urban environment for an environment where nature is still relatively dominant and to live in almost total seclusion. Working under these circumstances and presenting work in an alternative location can give us the opportunity to question our own position in society.
Tsarino is a long-term project for future collaborations between artists who come to stay and work independently. Our interest is to preserve the village which otherwise would slowly disappear. The Collective owns three houses in the village where people can come and stay for a duration of one to two months.
During the opening you can get informed about the residency. There will also be food, drinks and music Bulgarian style.
Works presented by:
Daphne de Sonneville, Alper Demir, Taro Pieterson, Plamen Petkov, Rotem Stern, Marije Roos, Alexandros Papamarkou
